{"id":189551,"date":"2018-04-06T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T10:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=189551"},"modified":"2018-04-09T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:20:07","slug":"local-government-elections-act-to-be-amended-parties-that-win-will-control-councils-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/local-government-elections-act-to-be-amended-parties-that-win-will-control-councils-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Government Elections Act To Be Amended, Parties That Win Will Control Councils: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to the recently concluded local government elections, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Maithripala+Sirisena\">Maithripala Sirisena<\/a> said that it is imperative that the local government elections act be further amended allowing only those parties that won the majority of the vote to rule the particular local government body.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186345\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186345\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-186345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-186345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sirisena<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The President made these observations when he met with heads of media institutions this morning (6th) at the President\u2019s House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not a healthy situation for the country to have over 8000 representatives at the local government level. This number will be cut in half once the terms of the councils elected (on February 10th) ends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":184930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Local Government Elections Act To Be Amended, Parties That Win Will Control Councils: President - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/local-government-elections-act-to-be-amended-parties-that-win-will-control-councils-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local Government Elections Act To Be Amended, Parties That Win Will Control Councils: President - 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